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It would need to be a new, special administrative district built from scratch. It would need a whole lot of unoccupied and to be somewhere with a habitable climate. Really, as most everywhere remotely habitable is covered in people already, this limits out options. I'd think a big chunk of western Vancouver Island, in Canada, where not many people live right now, could be given over to the world government for a the building of a great capital. It's the only place with both the infrastructure and proximity to industries to build such a place that is both habitable and sparsely populated. I'd put it in a provincial park near, the town of Barnfield.
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New York would make sense because of the UN. But I don't know, people don't like Eurocentrism and people don't like the USA lol.. Istanbul, somewhere in Africa? London? People would argue all day. I'd like it to be in Africa. Of course since this is a theoretical scenario I'm being even more theoretical because I'm assuming the world would all be highly advanced and in harmony.
Jerusalem is close to three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa.
, even in this day and age can you imagine trying to govern over 7 billion around the globe?
Why would that be a problem? Mao governed over a billion all by himself, in an era when there was no internet, no telephones, no TV, no paved roads. with people speaking dozens of languages using several alphabets. And there was no place to hide, his government knew exactly where everybody was every day.
It's easy to govern large numbers of people. Even in the USA, it is impossible to cash a $1 rebate check without a bank account, which you can't get without showing a credit report, a birth certficate, and a photo-id with a microchip in it showing a retina scan and a current street address, and you never actually see or touch that dollar. Governing people by the billions is getting easier and easier every day. We are not people anymore, we are electronic numbers, being governed as gigapopulations by the nanosecond. And just like in Mao's China, there is no place to hide.
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Why would that be a problem? Mao government over a billion all by himself, in an era when there was no internet, no telephones, no TV, no paved roads. with people speaking dozens of languages using several alphabets. And there was no place to hide, his government knew exactly where everybody was every day.
Yes but Israel and Palestine can't even get along, how are you gonna forge a sense of unity among all those nations.
Which goes to show it can be hard enough to run a country of only 300 million.
No, in fact the opposite is true. You run a country of 300-million by forwarding them all hate-email. An example of how modern technology makes it more facile to, more broadly, slant all information the same way, of which America and China are currently competing archetypes. It is not diversity of opinion that makes a nation, it is uniformity of opinion. When all the people of the world have been trained from early childhood to have the same values and to think the same thing and identify with the same virtues and look under their beds for the same imaginary enemies, then you can have a single global nation.
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